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- Wed December 9th, 2009, 5:14 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: July 2009: What are you Reading?
- Replies: 247
- Views: 15616
I just finished Gortner's "Last Queen" wow! I have already recommended it to all my H.F. reader friends! I picked up "A Lady Raised High" by Laurien Gardner in a bargain bin, it is about one of Anne Boleyn's ladies. I am kind of Tutor'd out right now, but thought I would give it a try. I am forty pa...
- Wed December 9th, 2009, 5:06 pm
- Forum: Ask Your Fellow Readers
- Topic: Royal Mistress Novels
- Replies: 91
- Views: 11053
[quote=""Miss Moppet""]The Susan Scott Holloway may be meatier - it got good reviews on Amazon. Annis, I'm adding The Queen's Pawn. Looks juicy. (But not in the Agnes Sorel sense. Thank God).[/quote] Have you picked up Holloway's "Kings Favorite" on Nell Gwyn? Just wondering if it was a "meatier" re...
- Wed December 9th, 2009, 4:50 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: July 2009: What are you Reading?
- Replies: 247
- Views: 15616
[QUOTE=Veronica;35194]And now I've decided to pick up Scapegallows by Carol Birch. Fingers crossed it's a good one, just happen to come over her book a while ago and thought I'd give it a go. :) QUOTE] Have you gotten through this book. It sounds like a good read and the ratings were pretty good. So...
- Wed December 9th, 2009, 4:47 pm
- Forum: By Author's Last Name A-F
- Topic: Blood Royal by Vanora Bennett
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5875
- Wed April 29th, 2009, 3:15 pm
- Forum: Young Adult Historical Fiction
- Topic: Historical fiction for boys 10-15
- Replies: 48
- Views: 14238
My 11 year old boy is really into the author Gary Paulsen. He wrote a series the first in it is called "Hatchet", it's a about a boy who survives in the Canadian wilderness after crashing in a bushplane, and the only tool he has is a hatchet. I have read several of Paulsen's books and he is a fantas...
- Mon April 27th, 2009, 9:51 pm
- Forum: Games
- Topic: Good jokes and other funny stuff
- Replies: 92
- Views: 15520
- Mon April 27th, 2009, 9:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: School books that did for you?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3611
I loved reading MacBeth, can't remember if it was in grade 10 or 11. I also remember reading Watership Down in grade 7 and it really moved me. In grade 10 we read Canadain author Margaret Lawrence's Stone Angel, and I rememeber really enjoying that...I guess they are going to making it into a movie ...
- Mon April 27th, 2009, 9:36 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: What's in your CD player?
- Replies: 315
- Views: 26630
I like everything and anything! Right now I am in love with Fairy Dance by Ashley MacIsaac and David's Jig by Natalie McMaster which are "World" gendre music. I am also going through an Alphaville kick plus, I like the songs "Up Among the Heather" by the Irish Rovers, Lady GaGa's "Poker Face", Katy ...
- Thu April 23rd, 2009, 2:48 am
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: String her up by her toes or...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 880
- Mon April 20th, 2009, 1:10 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: April 2009 - What are you reading?
- Replies: 230
- Views: 13214